Whether your child is 3 or 13, don't rush in to rescue him until you know he's done all he can to rescue himself.

Whether your child is 3 or 13, don't rush in to rescue him until you know he's done all he can to rescue himself.

Regulatory failings mean that the cost of breaking the law is far below that of obeying it - businesses are happier to pay fines than to control pollution.

A pound of Alaskan king crab legs and buffalo shrimp happy Travie.

Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself!

My father did shape me. He didn't drive because he had one leg, and for years I never drove. I had no mobility.

He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with.

Without a doubt my mother was an inspiration for my writing. This is true in many ways, but mostly because she is a wonderful storyteller, without even knowing it.

Music is like girlfriends to me Im continually astonished by the choices other people make.

Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.

The Long Island Sound is an environmentally unique estuary that needs to be protected.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

If every man would make his prime concern the comfort and well-being of his wife and every wife make her chief concern the comfort and well-being of her husband, we would have very little divorce in the land.

Increased physical activity during the school day can help children's attention, classroom behavior, and achievement test scores. Meanwhile, the decline of play is closely linked to ADHD; behavioral problems; and stunted social, cognitive, and creative development.

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.

Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there's a lot of work to be done.

What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world.

NASA is moving the space program to Starkville because it has no atmosphere.

You know when you become friends with someone, you don't even remember? When you weren't friends? You're just kinda like, 'When were we not friends? When I met you, weren't we just already friends?' I have the same thing with the Strokes guys.

Working hard to earn more money and then giving it away in higher taxes isn't financially intelligent, even if you do put some of it into a retirement account.

But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Just as a stool requires three legs to stand upright so the taekwondoist must cultivate basic skills, meaningful forms, and effective sparring in order to have both feet firmly planted in the art.

People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it's cool.

A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.

I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.

A fitting external security environment could also play an important role in promoting social consensus and institutionalization towards democratization.